Statement.executeQuery() and no results

Folks

When we run a query that produces no results, executeQuery() returns
an exception instead of a ResultSet object for which the first call to
next() returns false. (This is with a driver for pgsql 7.3.2)

Here is some code in AbstractJdbc1Statement.java

/*
* A Prepared SQL query is executed and its ResultSet is returned
*
* @return a ResultSet that contains the data produced by the
* * query - never null
* @exception SQLException if a database access error occurs
*/
public java.sql.ResultSet executeQuery() throws SQLException
{
this.execute(false);
while (result != null && !((AbstractJdbc1ResultSet)result).reallyResultSet())
result = ((AbstractJdbc1ResultSet)result).getNext();
if (result == null)
throw new PSQLException("postgresql.stat.noresult");
return result;
}

Is my understanding correct ? Is this working as designed ? I'm not
convinced that this is as per the spec. I would rather see a ResultSet
object returned instead of an exception.

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